FCC Rejects AMTS Application by NUSCO
The FCC Wireless Bureau rejected an application by Northwest Utilities Service Co. (NUSCO) to modify its license for an automated maritime telecom system (AMTS) by adding a new location at Mt. Sunapee, New Hampshire. Mission Broadcasting had objected, saying the…
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new transmitter would cause interference to viewers of its WVNY Burlington, Vermont, which broadcasts on Channel 13, the bureau said Monday. “Mission asserts that there are over 30,000 residences within both the proposed AMTS station's predicted interference contour and the television station's noise limited service contour, and the proposed AMTS station is predicted to cause interference to almost 2,300 residences.” The bureau said that as a result it is dismissing the utility company’s application as defective. NUSCO failed to demonstrate that the site is “the only suitable location” for the new AMTS site, the bureau said.